It's been two week since Y/N had an encounter with the void. Everything seemed to be normal from then on. Except for one thing:
Y/N's sleeping schedule.
The day after she was possessed with the creature gave her the prevention to sleep. Not even for a decent minute. Every time she closed her eyes as the stars show up to the sky, the void came to greet her a torturous hello. So she decided to just not sleep at all, leaving her drained and dull everyday.
It also meant her immune system was getting faulty.
"Y/N, the coffee's overflowing!" Zart, the keeper of the fields, called out. Her eyes shot up from falling asleep as she lifted the pot away from Zart's cup. Brown liquid spread throughout their surroundings as well as her friend's clothes.
She couldn't help but grimace. "Shuck." Y/N cursed under her breath before she hurriedly taking a rugs from the kitchen. "I'm so sorry, Zart. Here," she handed one of the rugs, "just go sit somewhere else, I'll clean this up." She finished as she sniffed up the liquid that was running down her nose.
"This has been happening for a week, Y/N." Alby suddenly piped up.
"I'm sorry, Alby. It won't happen again." Y/N swore with a hoarse tone. Newt hoped it wouldn't come to this. He'd been noticing her coming out of her room with a pale face and a runny nose these past two weeka. "No, Love, it's not just that," he chimed as he walked over to her, "you look like you have a bloody fever."
Y/N shook her head in denial. "N-No, I'm fine, Blondie, really. Just go on and have your breakfa--" However, the sneeze that was let out said otherwise. Her friends looked at her with concern, Newt especially. It made her feel uncomfortable. "I-It's probably just allergies!" She waved off with a nervous laugh.
"All right, you need to go to the Medjacks, Love." Newt insisted, calling for Clint and Jeff to escort her to the Med hut with him. Y/N didn't have a choice. So she reluctantly went with them.
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Jeff took the thermometer from Y/N's mouth after three minutes to have a look at her temperature. The frown on his face made it evident that it was evident. "Well, Newt's right. You do have a fever." He said to Y/N, who focused on the pole that held the hut up. She avoided the eyes that were all lying on her even if it only were from three people. "You got anything else that's sore or aching? Like your throat?"
Y/N slowly shook her head in reply.
"Your stomach?"
Once again, they only got a nodded no from her.
Newt was getting frustrated. "Y/N, you have to tell us what in the bloody hell is up. We aren't a buggin' fortune-teller." As much as he loves her, it irritated him that she only answers them as if she was unable to speak. She was never usually this quiet.
The girl blinked thrice vigorously, trying to get the faint pounding of her head to settle down. Though, it only got worse because of the void that kept tormenting her in her head. "My head.." Y/N tugged on the roots of her hair as she grimaced, hoping that it would be gone if she did so. ".. it hurts." She tried to get her words out in a way that she would sound like she was okay, but it went out in a low whimper. "They just won't shut up." She added under her breath.
Newt and the other two boys wasn't able to understand what she said in the last bit. Although his stomach churned when she started trembling and sobbing. "They won't leave me alone." Y/N wavered, bringing her knees to her chest.
She couldn't keep it from them any longer. Y/N knew that they would only think of her as lady who'd gone mad after all. She was sure they wouldn't believe her. She knew she wasn't going to get help from others.
"Who won't leave you alone?" Newt asked protectively as he crouched down below her eye level. "I could get Alby to send them to the Sla--"
"N-No it's not like that." Y/N said with a stuffy nose.
"Then what is it?"
The only thing Y/N could do was look away from Newt. "You wouldn't understand." Newt heard her say to him.
Before he could dig into their conversation deeper, Clint spoke up. "Your pulse isn't as normal than usual." The girl had no idea the curly haired boy was checking for her pulse. "When was the last time you slept?"
Y/N's words kept stumbling down that she couldn't even finish a single sentence. Newt was there. She wouldn't able to lie with him, who knows her better than herself, in the same room as her. She couldn't tell the truth either way, because if she does, they'll make her go to sleep.
She would dread for that to happen.
"She hasn't slept for two weeks." Minho suddenly spoke up once he entered the Med hut after his daily run in the Maze. "And she doesn't eat that much either."
Minho received a weak glare from Y/N. Even though he felt bad for being a tattletale, he had to tell them the truth. He didn't want his friend to get any further that her current state.
Just as Y/N was about to interfere and deny it, Minho beat her to it. "I've seen you throw away your food when nobody's looking. You wander around the Deadheads in the middle of these past nights as well to get yourself awake." He stated.
Newt slowly turned to Y/N with a disappointed expression. The girl tried to explain herself, but he was occupied and bothered with his thoughts. Why would she stay awake for two whole weeks? He thought, Why would she keep her problems from me?
He wasn't liking the way she acted lately. She wasn't herself. Either way, he still loved her, cared for her. He wanted to help her. "Look." He reached for her hands and looked at her in the eye. "I know there's something you are not telling me. I understand that you're not ready to talk to me about it, but... I don't want you getting sick." Newt's worried tone comforted her as he grazed his hand on her cheek.
His touch slightly comforted Y/N in spite of what she was going through with this bad spirit that was pestering her. However, she wasn't taking a liking as to where this conversation was leading to. The shaking of her head in fear said so.
"You need to take the rest of the day off to sleep."
Now, as much as it was such a glorious thing to hear, taking a free day and put oneself into a deep slumber, it was the one Y/N was dreading to hear. Out of all the time they could've given me this, she thought, it just had to happen now.
"No, no, no, no. I'm all right, Newt. I swear I'm okay." She resisted as she flailed her arms and squirmed. Afraid of going to bed. "Just.. please, don't let me fall asleep. You don't understand. I can't... I can't bare it. Please, let me get back to work. Put me in the slammer for all I care." She stood up from the medical bed to prepare herself to get outside of the room. "Do anything you want but this one." She pleaded only to have them force her more.
Jeff grabbed took a container of sleeping pills and took one for Y/N. "Maybe you're talking about this thing called insomnia." He diagnosed while doing so. "I just read about it a day ago. You probably can't sleep due to your brain having poor concentrations at night. Try taking this." He finished as he screwed the cap of the container back in before handing it to the girl, who was getting buried with paranoia.
"I don't want that shucking drug!" She snapped, harshly pushing his hand away, letting the pill get thrown out of Jeff's hands. He got frightened when she suddenly launched herself towards him and grabbed him by the collar. "What part of I want to stay awake did you not understand, huh? Don't you get it? Your lives are in jeopardy if I go to sleep!"
Newt and Minho tried prying her off of the poor boy. They never realize she was that strong when the girl wouldn't budge. "Calm down, Y/N!" Newt urged as she squirmed from their grip on her arms.
"Yeah! You're not thinking straight anymore!" Minho followed.
Eventually, the two keepers got her off of their fellow Glader. "Get the hell off me! I'm not crazy!" Y/N thrashed and struggled to break out from their strong hold.
"Hold her down!" Newt instructed Minho, nodding his head towards the medical bed. He didn't have a choice but to let Clint sedate his love. As they did so, Clint readied the syringe of sedative and plunged the needle into Y/N, who was still screaming for them to let her go.
She only calmed down as soon as the sedative was taking an effect on her. Until now, she kept pleading for them to let her stay awake. "Please, please, don't..."
Y/N tried fighting it as her eyes had gotten heavy, and her sight was getting blurry by the second up until all she can see was black.
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Y/N's heart dropped as soon as she caught the familiar sight of the dull Med hut. Dusts were flying around the room and everything was festering. "No." Her voice was hoarse when she realized she was back in the Void's den. "No, no, no, no, no.." The girl tried to find her way out of the endless terror, though, it was no use as she kept ending up in the same spot.
"Thomas! Minho!" Y/N cried for help even though she knew it did anything but. "Newt!" Tears were streaming down her face as she went to look around for a way out.
The cackling of the vile spirit can be heard loud and clear. Just by hearing them broke Y/N down. She covered her ears and tugged on her H/C hair, going out of her mind as the Void lingered. "I know you can hear me, Y/N." They taunted with a giggle.
"Why can't you just leave me alone?" Y/N sobbed quietly when fear itself has possessed her.
"Oh, and go back to the crummy ol' figurine without getting what I've been craving for?" Y/N turned to the direction where she suddenly heard their voice change into the very same one as her own. When she did, she went face to face with the void that shifted into her physique.
The difference is, this particular clone of Y/N was duller. Almost as if she was dead. "Yeah.." Void Y/N kept her smug grin when she sensed the real Y/N's heart rate went in an inhuman pace out of fright.
When she tried backing away from her dull clone, Void Y/N clasped her hand on her throat and her face contorted into a frown.
"I don't think so."
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Yes, em still aLiVe people! Not sure if I am entirely myself again, but Em BaCk To ThE lAnD oF tHe LiViNg!
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